You People Sure Can Haiku

Thanks for all the great entries in the haiku contest I’ve received thus far. You people are very talented, I must say. Remember, you have til midnight Eastern Time on Thursday to enter — leave your entry in the comments for yesterday’s post.

I’ve got two judges: one knitter and one non-knitter. They will be submitting their top picks from among the entries, and I’ll create a poll with those entries for Sunday’s post and you all can vote for your favorite.

It’s all very scientific, you know?

I have a new sock design on the needles.

I spent part of Saturday and all day Sunday fiddling with new sock patterns and by Sunday night had tweaked this one to my satisfaction. It is being knit from Fleece Artist Merino in the “Aegean” colorway, and I’m knitting the non-twisty bits with a 2mm needle and the twisty bits with a 2.5mm needle. It’s a very entertaining knit, because you do little cable twists on every other row. That also makes it a somewhat slow knit. But that’s okay.

I had a couple of names in mind for the pattern, but while writing this, I realized that now and forever, I will think of this pattern as “Twisty Bits Socks.” So be it.

I went back to work today and was pleasantly surprised to find my ailing computer back in my office. It booted up, I logged on, no problems. But all my data and settings were gone. They had backed it all off onto a portable drive, but it took my five hours and numerous phone calls to get someone to bring the freaking drive down and restore my data.

When I left the office, all my data was restored and I was working on restoring all my program settings.

Comments

Verrrry pretty sock – again. 🙂 Glad to hear your computer is on its way to being back to normal. That’s the one thing I hate when we get new laptops at work – reloading non-standard company software and putting all my settings back – ugh!

Yes well …!!! I had a computer upgrade yesterday and it only took all day and a couple of hissy fits [ who me!! ] to get them to get it going and loaded correctly. What I said about IT was fairly unprintable.

Then of course we now have an upgrade to our operating system , that they didn’t tell us about and of course there are a few “minor” differences to how data is imputed. Just minor you know…!!

computers: can’t live with ’em, can’t smash ’em to smithereens . . .
i’m hoping i can retire before our company’s next “upgrade.” (of course, the above derogatory remarks don’t apply to my beloved mac, only to the members of the accursed pc tribe.)

Haiku writer I’m not!!! I always hated writing poetry. I really really like the new sock. I will definitely be buying that pattern. Gotta go the dog’s eating what looks like a knitting pattern. How’d she get that?!

Twisty Bits is great, I’ll be stalking that one as well. And yes, I meant to thank you for yesterday’s tutorial on how to get rid of the holes at the heels—it helps so much to see a picture or six of exactly how to do it—but I was too distracted counting syllables. (At least you didn’t ask us to submit sonnets!)

Twisty Bits socks are very pretty. The computer problem sucks. My computer has completely crashed three or four times in the past year and just did it again this morning. I dread having to reinstall everything, because I have a number of specialized programs I work with and reinstalling everything is a major, hours and days consuming task.
Bottom line is: I feel yur pain.

That is a beautiful design–and thanks so much for posting your technique for eliminating the holes. I’ve tried Charlene Schurch’s method,which worked well, and I actually haven’t had problems when I knitted basic socks on my own. But your method is so predictable that I think it will become the one I use.

Hey Wendy and Lucy! Your new sock in progress is so pretty! I just bought one of your patterns from The Loopy Ewe along with a skein of georgeous yarn from Gypsy Knits. I keep telling myself – – no more yarn – -you have enough yarn to knit socks for years – – but then another sneak-up occurs and I can’t help myself. Sigh. As I’m plugging in my credit card I tell myself “you need help”.

Question: When you pick up a stitch with your left needle do you *knit* it to the right needle or do you simply *slip* it to the right needle. I’m a self taught knitter and from what I’ve learned (and have applied to socks) is when you pick up and knit a stitch you are not actually knitting that picked up stitch initally, and knit when you come around but now I’m figuring out that with socks and picking up between the heel flap and instep that perhaps you do? I did it last night and low and behold there is no pesky hole on one side of my sock and the other side has a very teeny hole. Is this what you do?

I feel your pain with the computer problems. We had a system “upgrade” last week. Everyday since then, something doesn’t work right, and when they “fix” it, it makes something else not work right. Aaarrrgggghhhhh!

Those twisty socks are indeed the cat’s meow! Very nice. I’ll look forward to seeing more of them.

And thanks for mentioning the Festivus miracle. I had to google that to find out the reference. Being tv-less (by choice), I hadn’t heard of this lovely holiday and its customs. Learn something new all the time!

Love the Twisty Bits socks and the colorway! Computers…what a pain they can be. Every time mine has problems I think, well I could work on…no can’t do that, oh I could work on…no can’t do that either, because it’s ALL on the computer! When I think back to the days of ‘plain’ phones and unfancy typewriters and pads of paper and pens…it’s a wonder we were able to accomplish anything…LOL. Of course, my typewriter rarely crashed either, come to think of it.

Love the new sock and really love Twisty Bits for a name. As the child of an IT person I will tell you this, if you ever feel really wicked call them and ask them to help you find a file missing from your desktop. (of course later reveal the desktop you speak of is solid and the file is of the paper kind. They love that 😉

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